Arswendy Bening Swara
Also Known As: Arswendy Nasution, Arswendi Bening Suara, Arswendy Bening Swara, Arswendi Bening Swara, Arwendy Nasution, Arswedi Bening Swara, Arswendy Beningswara Nasution
Biography: Arswendy Beningswara Nasution (born on November 22, 1957) is an Indonesian actor, acting coach, and director of Mandailing descent. He studied Performing Arts at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts (IKJ) from 1978 to 1982. His career began in theater, joining Teater Mandiri, led by Putu Wijaya. His film debut was Opera Jakarta in 1985. In addition to acting, Arswendy is also known as an acting coach for various films, such as Denias, Senandung Di Atas Awan and Merah Putih. Some of his most notable films include Satan’s Slaves (2017) as Ustad, Two Blue Stripes (2019) as Rudy, and Missing Home (2022) as Pak Domu. His role in Autobiography (2022) earned him the Best Actor award at the Marrakech International Film Festival. In his personal life, Arswendy is the father of Eno Bening, a well-known Indonesian YouTuber. With over three decades of experience, Arswendy Beningswara Nasution continues to make significant contributions to the Indonesian film and theater industry.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jakarta, Indonesia
Adult: No
Birthday: November 22, 1957
Age: 67 years old
Gender: Male
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Kutukan Cakar Monyet
Overview: A greedy husband and wife use a monkey claw amulet given by a shaman so they can get rich quickly. But apparently, they had crossed the line that made so many victims around them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2023-04-06
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Mantra Surugana
Overview: Arriving in her new dormitory, Tantri soon discovers the presence of an ancient demon connected to the mysterious disappearance of fellow students.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2023-07-27
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The Making of AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Overview: The making of Makbul Mubarak's debut feature film "Autobiography" (2022).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2023-01-23
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Missing Home
Overview: A married couple stages their divorce in order to encourage their estranged adult children to return to their hometown.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2022-06-02
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Badrun & Laundry
Overview: A civil servant taking shelter from the rain in front of a laundry shop. Then, he was given a bag of laundry clothes which he thought belonged to the laundry shop clerk. Unexpectedly, he took the bag containing lots of clothes and ran away and sparked a commotion in the surrounding community.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2023-11-13
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The Shadow Strays
Overview: Skilled in the art of killing, a young assassin defies her mentor to save a boy from a ruthless crime syndicate — and she'll destroy anyone in her path.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-09-10
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Wakaf
Overview: Tells about waqf land which was previously used for misguided things.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2023-10-26
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The Virgin Corpse
Overview: A jealous young man tries to steal his brother's girlfriend by using the power of an ancient myth.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2008-04-10
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The Dead Nurse
Overview: Vira and Silla works in a hospital. They live in a haunted nursing hostel. Suster Ngesot ghost kills adulterers. Vira gets sign before a murder.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2007-05-10
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Of Love and Eggs
Overview: Set in and around a mosque in sprawling Jakarta, Indonesia, during the Muslim holiday of Lebaran, the interwoven stories of family, faith and romantic love in this humorous yet poignant film are revealed through the eyes of kids.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2004-11-06
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An Eternity
Overview: Elderly couple Surya and Indah’s love for each other is tested by Indah’s diabetes and Surya’s hearing impairment, but they stay together.
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Original Language: id
Release Date: 2023-06-03
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Grave Torture
Overview: When a violent act kills her parents, Sita vows to debunk the idea of supernatural torment after death — a fixation that leads her on a dark quest.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-04-11
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Seputih Cinta Melati
Overview: Two prisoners escaped from a prison a few weeks before Eid al-Fitr. They were forced to hide in a cabin and then met the siblings Rian and Melati who were in trouble. The prisoners help them and their friendship started here.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2014-07-24
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Haunted Hotel
Overview: After a family went bankrupt and lost their house, they have to move to a haunted hotel.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2018-08-16
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Little Obama
Overview: Obama Anak Menteng is a 2010 biopic drama film written and directed by Indonesian author Damien Dematra in collaboration with John de Rantau. The film is based on Dematra's novel by the same name. Both the book and the film are a fictionalized account of the childhood of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, who lived in Indonesia from 1967 to 1971.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2010-07-01
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Eliana, Eliana
Overview: Five years earlier, Eliana flees her home in Padang when her parents want to marry her off. Now her mother pays her a surprise visit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2002-04-23
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Selamat Menempuh Hidup Baru
Overview: To avoid scandal and malicious talk, a girl must agreed to be married to her boyfriend after a date rape.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-04
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Anwar: The Untold Story
Overview: It follows the story of Anwar's fight against corruption while in government between the years of 1993 and 1998, which led to his eventual imprisonment and the birth of the reformasi movement.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 2023-05-18
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Two Blue Hearts
Overview: Reunited after years apart, a young couple faces a new chapter of parenthood as they navigate challenges in raising their 4-year-old son together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-04-17
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Tale of the Land
Overview: After witnessing her parent’s death, May develops a condition that renders her unconscious every time she steps on land. Her grandfather, Tuha, shelters her in a lake house. Branded cursed by her village, May is determined to reclaim her life on solid ground.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-10-04
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Khanzab
Overview: After his father was beheaded by ninjas in Banyuwangi '98, Rahayu was traumatized to the point where he found it difficult to concentrate on his prayers due to interference from the khanzab.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2023-04-19
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The Clerics
Overview: It follows the struggle of clerics to keep Islam alive during the Japanese invasion of Indonesia in 1942.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2013-05-30
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The Ballads of Roy
Overview: After the death of his father, Roy moved to Serang with his mother. He is different from most boys and that makes him liked by lots of girls in his school.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2023-01-19
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Possession: Kerasukan
Overview: A young woman leaves her family for unknown reasons. Her husband, determined to find out the truth, starts following her. He initially suspects that a man is involved, but gradually, discovers more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a simple love affair.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-05-08
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Cadong
Overview: Danan, a former regent, and Drajat, a former governor, share a prison cell as both have been convicted of corruption. Their conflicting attitudes towards corruption create tension within their confined space.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2021-05-21
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3 Nafas Likas
Overview: The story of a woman named Likas who gets special accomplishments and successes, as she holds fast to pledge to the three most important people in her life: her father Ngantari, her brother Njohre, and her husband Djamin. In Karo, North Sumatra, there is a custom: when a woman has to work, then the disgrace belongs to the family. However, Likas still wants to move forward. Therefore she opposes the custom. She attends school because she wants to be a teacher. She looses her mother because of stress. With the help of her brother, she could become a teacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2014-10-16
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Dead Time
Overview: A police and a journalist uncover series of murders that lead into one problem: A treasure many parties were fighting for and caused many casualties.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery Crime
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2007-04-19
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Shackled
Overview: Elang, who lived in the flat, is often haunted by images of bizarre murders involving a killer with a rabbit costume. His efforts to solve the mystery and save the lives of the people he presumed in danger, has in turn trapped him in a downward spiral and he became a suspect himself. In proving his innocence, he will be forced to unveil a horrible and long-buried secret.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2013-02-28
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Before the Morning Repeated
Overview: Yan (55) is an honest government official. His wife, Rachel (55) is a philosophy professor at a leading university. They have three children who are very different in character. The oldest, Firman, the weakest, just get divorced and in idle condition. The second, Satria, a young contractor, has big ambitions to grow his business. Satria certainly be the golden boy of the family. And the last is Dian, the youngest, beloved of all family members, has been engaged to Hassan, a member of Parliament who is young, hungry and has a lot of connections to government officials. Stress due to rumors around him, Yan decides to resign. Soen does not understand what is going with his son. She also gets stress and then is hospitalized. Soen finally died. Family’s life is changed quickly and become more gloomy and not as warm as before. Money change all: the family’s values begin to collapse and reveal the falsity around them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2014-05-08
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Laskar Pelangi 2: Edensor
Overview: Ikal and Arai win scholarships to study at Sorbone, Paris. Meanwhile, Katya, a student on the same campus, chose Ikal to be her boyriend. Ikal felt guilty and his conflict with Arai made the two friends into different path.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2013-12-24
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Night Bus
Overview: A group of civilians share a bus ride to Sampar, a town full of natural resources. It is heavily guarded by the state army who is fighting against the rebel militias, who want freedom over their homeland.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2017-04-06
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Musik Hati
Overview: Tisa and Airin are the perfect accompanying tune to their father, Sastro, who has been raising them as a single dad. Their bond as a family starts to tremble as a young man named Ray gets the attention of Tisa and Airin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2008-02-22
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Lost
Overview: After moving to a village in the forest, a young woman seeks to connect with her late father through a sacred well — but it houses a pernicious spirit.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2018-08-23
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Jakarta Undercover
Overview: After accidently killing her temperamental father in order to save her mom from his abuse, Viki flees from Medan to Jakarta with her autistic brother, Ara. To make ends meet in Jakarta, Viki poses as a transvestite and works as a striptease dancer. With no one to watch over her brother, Viki brings Ara every night to the club where she works and hide him in one corner of the room at the club. One day, Ara accidently witnesses an act of murder by Haryo, son of an official, and his friends. Realizing his crime action witness by Ara, Haryo and his friends chase Viki and Ara, determined to silene the two before they go to the police. For the sake of saving his brother’s life, Viki secretly flee from one place to another in order to escape Haryo and friends. Will Viki and Ara escape?
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2007-03-22
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Satan's Slaves
Overview: After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for three years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2017-09-28
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3: Alif Lam Mim
Overview: Jakarta 2036. Alif, Lam and Mim are three friends from martial art school Al-Ikhlas. Alif chooses to become state apparatus. He is determined to eradicate all forms of crime and searching for the killers of his parents. Lam, becomes a journalist. While Mim chooses to serve as a teacher in their school. All three are reunited after the explosion of a bomb in a cafe.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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The Forbidden Door
Overview: A successful sculptor's life is turned upside down when he starts to receive mysterious messages from someone asking for his help. As he digs deeper, he discovers a boy is being abused and has to choose between saving the boy or losing everything.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2009-01-22
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Folklore: A Mother's Love
Overview: A single mother and her young son discover a group of dirty and underfed children living in a mansion's attic. Upon saving them and returning them to their families, she has unknowingly snatched these children from their adopted mother - Wewe Gombel - and must now beware her vengeful wrath.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2019-03-08
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The Wedding Shaman
Overview: After a betrayal at work, a finance professional becomes an assistant to a bride shaman in order to salvage her only remaining property — and love life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2019-04-04
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MatiAnak
Overview: Since a new kid arrives at an orphanage, weird things started to happen.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2019-03-28
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Chants of Lotus
Overview: Four women, four cities, four unflinching stories—this powerful omnibus film weaves together the struggles of women across Indonesia, from a midwife battling corruption to a teenager caught in betrayal, a mother fighting for her child, and a widow facing the harsh truth of survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2007-12-16
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Two Blue Stripes
Overview: Young love leads to heartbreak for two star-crossed high school students when an unplanned pregnancy has agonizing consequences for their families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2019-07-11
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Gundala
Overview: Sancaka has lived on the streets since his parents left him. Living a hard life, Sancaka survives by thinking about his own safety. When the condition of the city gets worse and injustice rages throughout the country, Sancaka must decide whether he continues to live to look after himself or rise to become their oppressed hero.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2019-08-29
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Impetigore
Overview: A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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Habibie & Ainun 3
Overview: When she was in high school, Ainun was known as a smart girl and became the target of many male students, including Habibie. In college, Ainun became a popular figure. Ahmad is a man who dared to express his love for Ainun.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2019-12-19
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Rumah Pondok Indah
Overview: Tio is a very well-known sculptor who has customers from every country who always flock to his galleries. The statues he made are always very realistic and he is always all out in every sculpture he makes, even to go as far as ignoring his girlfriend, Maya. One day, Maya was promised that they will have a big engagement announcement on television, however it never happened, and Maya was only made to be the base of his newest sculpture. Maya, who heard about it, got mad at Tio. Tio cannot take it anymore, and in the end, killed Maya, even after knowing that she is pregnant with their child. Tio decided to make a sculpture from her body so people would not know the truth.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2006-05-17
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Best Friend?
Overview: Tania is the golden child of the teachers because she is smart. But her schoolmates find her too serious. Moli, the new student, is the exact opposite of Tania. But the other students, also reject her for being too extreme. Nobody is willing to go with Moli except Tania. Seeing Moli’s life, Tania suddenly feels that her life is very boring. She starts doing all the things that Moli does - speeding in a car, clubbing, cigarettes, alcohol, and even sex. Tania enjoys all this, especially the attention she gets from her schoolmates due to the change in her. When her family finds out about her dramatic change, Tania chooses to get away from them. However the party ends when Moli leaves her. And Tania has to fight alone to find the way back to her true self.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2008-06-26
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Crazy Awesome Teachers
Overview: When staff salaries get stolen at his school, a reluctant new teacher sets out to recoup the money and soon discovers the joys of teaching.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2020-08-17
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One Day We'll Talk About Today
Overview: Harboring a deep secret, a seemingly happy family confronts the trauma of years past as a clash between generations threatens to separate them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2020-01-02
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All Because of Ginah
Overview: Although she is only an herbalist, Ginah is very attractive. She looks graceful and her friendliness results in many crushes on her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Ashiap Man
Overview: Since childhood, Zulkarnaen has been obsessed with heroes who are always told by his father, Mr. Ibrahim. Aisyah is the only person who always supports Zul to become a knight to defend their village. One day Zul meets a mysterious girl named Kiara, who amazes Zul. But after Zul failed to save his father, Zul was discouraged. Can Zul as Ashap Man be a hero? And who will Zul, Aisyah or Kiara choose?
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Arwah Tumbal Nyai: Part Tumbal
Overview: Dewi is a woman who is less fortunate in love, every man she loves always dies because of mystical things. In her solitude, the male Dimas who once loved her appeared. But then Dimas also died in being killed by supernatural beings. Dewi became very afraid of the death of the man she loved. Then Ivan appeared, the son of his mother's friend. Then together with Ivan Dewi finally found out that he was a victim who had to be killed by the supernatural being. Until finally Dewi and Ivan found out that the supernatural being who wanted him was a person from his past.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2020-12-03
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Room
Overview: Rais, a diplomat, returns home when his mother passes away. He goes to the house of his sister, Rima. There is an awkward situation, as both siblings don't talk to each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2006-08-15
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Solo, Solitude
Overview: The Suharto regime has been holding power in Indonesia for over 30 years, shutting down democracy time and time again. Highly critical of the regime and unafraid to speak his mind, Wiji Thukul is a poet whose words are often yelled proudly by the crowd during political protests. When riots break out in Jakarta in 1996, he and a few other activists are accused to be responsible. Forced to flee, Wiji escapes to Pontianak in Borneo where he hides for eight months, sometimes living with complete strangers. There, he has to change his identity several times, but continues to write poetry and short stories under a pen name. In the meantime, in Solo, central Java, his wife, Sipon, lives with their two children under constant surveillance. In May 1998, Wiji Thukul is declared missing, a month before Suharto is deposed by his own people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2017-01-19
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A Man Called Ahok
Overview: An indonesian biopic movie on the controversial former Jakarta governor Ahok.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2018-11-11
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Opera Jakarta
Overview: Intertwined stories of Joko, a boxer, and Rum, the daughter of a general.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1985-02-01
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Saidjah & Adinda
Overview: Saidjah wanted to marry Adinda, but poverty prevented him. Saidjah then decided to work in Batavia. Adinda is now alone in Lebak waiting for Saidjah to return.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2021-03-04
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Akhirat: A Love Story
Overview: Timur, a young accountant who falls in love with a woman named Mentari. Even though the two have differences, Timur and Mentari remain firm together.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2021-12-02
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Ben & Jody
Overview: Two best friends band together with a group of villages to fight back against treacherous illegal loggers attempting to take away their land.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2022-01-27
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Kisah 3 Titik
Overview: This film tells the story of 3 female workers who have one name in common, Titik. They are Titik Sulastri, a widow with 2 children who works as a low-paid contract laborer at a garment factory, Titik Dewanti Sari, a spinster holding a prestigious position in a scandalous giant company, and Titik Kartika or Titik Tomboy, the son of a thug who works as a home factory worker. who is not afraid to die for justice. Not only sharing a name, the three dots are both trapped in a situation that makes their lives change 360 degrees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2013-05-02
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Survive
Overview: Vina wakes up with her body tied to a bed in the basement. He was repeatedly beaten and harassed by a masked psychopath. Together with Mila, they try to fight and free themselves from the psychopath's hold.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-16
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I
Overview: After Sanjaya loses his wife who he loves so much, unstoppable anger and anger makes Sanjaya darken his eyes and turn into a sniper who thirsts for blood and justice.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2021-07-16
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Autobiography
Overview: A young man is working as a housekeeper in an empty mansion. When its owner returns to start his mayoral election campaign, the young man bonds with him and defends him when his campaign is vandalized, setting off a chain of violence.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2023-01-19
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Before, Now & Then
Overview: Set against Indonesia’s turbulent post-independence years in the 1960s, the story revolves around the domestic life of a woman whose personal life has been completely overturned by the political turmoil.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: su
Release Date: 2022-07-08
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Dasim
Overview: Salma, who has just married Arman, begins to feel mystical disturbances. When Salma is pregnant and Arman receives a big project that often makes him work overtime, they move to Arman's mother's house. Salma faces increasingly scary terror, conflict with her in-laws, plus her suspicion that Arman is cheating, until Salma relies on her mysterious neighbor.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2025-05-15
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Whispers in the Dabbas
Overview: Puspa, a novice lawyer handling trivial cases, fights for the cause of poor people accused of petty crimes and threatened with disproportionate punishment. As she takes on a rigged legal establishment, she must grapple with her crippling senses of powerlessness, and empathy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2025-02-01
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Jodoh 3 Bujang
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2025-06-26
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The Dancer
Overview: Orphaned by a tragedy that took the lives of her parents, Srintil grows up in a poor Indonesian village aspiring to be a sacred dancer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2011-11-10
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A Gift for My Father
Overview: "Gin Swa" (A Gift for My Father) tells the story of Alin, a 22-year-old who saves up to buy a car for his aging father, a dedicated Gin Swa craftsman who continues working despite his declining health. When tragedy strikes, Alin is forced to let go of that dream—only to discover that the traditional craft becomes his way of reconnecting with the love he shared with his late father.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-10-26
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Trinity of Tales
Overview: From drama, comedy, to horror, every genre has become a space for expressions of love for film, fashion and photography artists. Three short films in three different genres that show the character and characteristics of their respective aesthetic views, are a form of respect for various styles of storytelling from different perspectives.
Genres: Drama Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-18
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